FILTER Magazine #56

By Kurt Orzeck on October 5, 2011

Mastodon’s most accessible album to date finds the ATL-iens as unfocused as ever—and out of gas. The Hunter isn’t a prog-fueled comet heading for a specific destination, it’s just floating in space. Indie rockers unfamiliar with the sludge-slingers’ repertoire will find a green light here. They might get this confused for a more-polished-yet-lesser-quality version of an early Queens of the Stone Age slab. Metal fans, on the other hand, will be pissed.